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Biblical Theology

What is Biblical Theology Exactly?

This is an excerpt from a book I am working on. As any reader is aware who has ventured into the literature on Biblical Theology, there is no one agreed upon way of doing it.  This is the case whether one is reading evangelical writers or the works of non-evangelicals.[1]  Not surprisingly several definitions have Read More

Complete Series: Trying to Get the Rapture Right

I have finally completed a series of twelve posts about the Rapture in which I have appealed for humility among the various schools of thought, while also explaining my pretribulational position.  I was asked to bring the posts together in one place, so here they are: Part One: Introduction Part Two: The Main Verses (1) Read More

What is Progressive Revelation?

“The whole idea of progression in this sense must incorporate constancy of meaning. Like coming across leopard tracks in the snow; following them would lead you to a leopard. It would not lead you to a bear. Bears have different signatures. Just so, when God reveals He leaves a verbal signature which can be tracked. It cannot eventuate in a result which the revelation has rendered us totally unprepared for.”

Review of ‘Telling God’s Story’ by Preben Vang & Terry G. Carter

Telling God’s Story is not an Introduction to the Books of the Bible. Rather it is, as its subtitle says, a survey of “the biblical narrative from beginning to end.” In our day of chronic Bible illiteracy, we sorely need to encourage people to study their Bibles. It is to Scripture that we should be pointing our flocks. With that in mind I would give this book to believers as a discipleship tool.”

Paul Henebury Responds to Darrell Bock

As previously noted here, I was asked to represent Traditional Dispensationalism for a set of interviews conducted by Lindsay Kennedy.  Two far more noteworthy contributors; Darrell Bock (Progressive Dispensationalism), and James Hamilton (Historic Premillennialism), were also interviewed. After the interviews were completed, each man was given the opportunity to ask one of the others a Read More

The Holy Spirit in the Old Testament

This article gives provides thorough overview of the Holy Spirit’s activity in the O.T.  Along the way such questions as the nature of “prophetic ecstasy”, and Old Testament salvation are described.